# Pocket Stoa

> The painted porch in your pocket. Stoic dilemmas, Socratic AI, and daily wisdom

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.pocketstoa.android](https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.pocketstoa.android)

## Overview

- **ID:** `app.pocketstoa.android`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Holmes0104
- **Category:** LIFESTYLE
- **Downloads:** 4
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-25
- **First published:** 2026-08-25
- **Publisher country:** FI
- **Size:** 145 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.pocketstoa.android)
- **Website:** [https://pocketstoa.com/](https://pocketstoa.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://pocketstoa.com/privacy](https://pocketstoa.com/privacy)

## Description

POCKET STOA — THE PAINTED PORCH, IN YOUR POCKET<br><br>Two thousand years ago, philosophers gathered on a painted porch — the Stoa — to ask a simple, enormous question: how should we live? Pocket Stoa brings that practice to your phone. It&#39;s a calm, beautiful space to think clearly, steady your mind, and build a philosophy you actually live by. No feeds. No outrage. No noise. Just you and the questions that matter.<br><br>Whether you&#39;re brand new to Stoicism or you&#39;ve read Marcus Aurelius cover to cover, Pocket Stoa meets you where you are — with daily practice, interactive challenges, and the great ideas of philosophy made genuinely usable.<br><br>WHAT&#39;S INSIDE<br><br>Find Your School — Answer a series of honest questions and discover which tradition fits how you already think: Stoic, Epicurean, Cynic, Aristotelian, and more. A map of your own mind.<br><br>Today&#39;s Dilemma — A fresh moral dilemma every day. Make your call, then see how different schools of thought reason through it. Watch your values take shape over time.<br><br>The Trolley — The famous thought experiment, reimagined as a deck of 180 cards across 18 chapters. Each card bends the problem a little further and asks: where, exactly, is your line?<br><br>Socratic Dialogue — An AI philosopher cross-examines a belief you hold, one question at a time, until it bends or holds. The Socratic method, alive and personal.<br><br>The Last Day — A 30-minute branching novella in six chapters. Live a life, face its end, and confront the questions a finite existence forces on us all.<br><br>DAILY PRACTICE<br><br>The Examen — A nightly six-stage reflection to close the day with clarity and intention.<br>Daily Maxim — A piece of timeless wisdom each morning, drawn from a library of one hundred maxims.<br>Thought Experiments — Ten classic puzzles that shaped philosophy, presented to wrestle with, not just read.<br>Who Said It? — A quote-attribution game spanning fifty lines from history&#39;s greatest minds. Test your ear for wisdom.<br>The Library — Your personal commonplace book. Save the lines that land and return to them whenever you need them.<br><br>LEARN<br><br>Read the source texts — Marcus Aurelius&#39;s Meditations, Epictetus&#39;s Enchiridion, and more — with plain-language summaries, a glossary of key concepts, profiles of the great thinkers, and a guided path from first principles to deeper study. Learn to spot the eighteen named logical fallacies and sharpen how you argue and think.<br><br>BUILT FOR REFLECTION, NOT ADDICTION<br><br>Pocket Stoa is the opposite of doom-scrolling. No infinite feed. No ads. No manipulation. It&#39;s quiet, warm, and made to leave you calmer than it found you. Track your streak, watch your values shift, and build a daily habit of thinking well — a few minutes at a time. <br><br>FREE TO START<br><br>The core experience is free. Pocket Stoa Pro is an optional subscription that unlocks everything: AI Socratic Dialogue, The Last Day, the full 180-card Trolley deck, the Fallacy curriculum, unlimited AI tools, and your Weekly Run Recap. No ads, ever. Your reflections stay private.<br><br>The painted porch is open. Pull up a seat — and learn to live well.

## Rankings

- #2,996,717 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_APP_BADGE`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW`
- `android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC`
- `android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `app.pocketstoa.android.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.anddoes.launcher.permission.UPDATE_COUNT`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.htc.launcher.permission.UPDATE_SHORTCUT`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.CHANGE_BADGE`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.huawei.android.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.majeur.launcher.permission.UPDATE_BADGE`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.READ_SETTINGS`
- `com.oppo.launcher.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ`
- `com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE`
- `com.sonyericsson.home.permission.BROADCAST_BADGE`
- `com.sonymobile.home.permission.PROVIDER_INSERT_BADGE`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_READ`
- `me.everything.badger.permission.BADGE_COUNT_WRITE`

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